Outside Buswell’s Hotel right NOW.
Clamp that mother.
The Blue Girl.
Watch her slurp her soup LIVE here.
By Adrien Merigeau who sez:
It’s an angry woman eating her soup. It was done all on paper, with a pencil and coloured inks, on 17 drawings playing on a loop. Some bits and bobs were added later on Photoshop. I don’t know where the idea comes from, I like random thoughts.
I grew up in France and moved in Ireland a few years ago because there’s really nice work to do in the field of animation and filmmaking. I mainly work for Cartoon Saloon, a really great little studio based in Kilkenny, as concept designer/art director. and some short films, and music video projects sometimes.
Damn multi-skilled Gallic gif-ster
This Week’s Le Cool issue


Taken from the BT Tower (whose exact address was a state secret until 1993), this 320 gigapixel panoramic gives a fantastic view across London at an unparalleled resolution.
Pity about the weather.
‘Kittens On The Beat’ by VFX maestros Corridor Digital: the age-old struggle between kitties and sock gremlins.
Alex Gibney’s Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God tells the story of four deaf boys who were abused by a priest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the subsequent cover-up.
It also explores the international cover-up of abuse across the world.
Richard Sipe (top) says:
“This is an old, old problem and if you follow this problem to its foundation, it will lead you to the highest corridors of the Vatican.”
Interview with Alex Gibney (above) on creating the documentary and Ireland here.
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God will be available on Volta from tomorrow.
Taoiseach revealed this morning he has an iPhone plus a Nokia 63 10 “which fell into the sink recently + is out of commission at the moment”
— mary minihan (@minihanmary) February 21, 2013
Blimey.
The very best of the most ‘difficult’ hair from the excellent Where Were You archive, 1960s-1990s.
That’s Toni and Guy in the last photo.
Impropriam Influentiam.
Worldy nature.
Christ on a bike.
In this morning’s article, it is claimed that the cardinals reported that various lobbies within the Holy See were consistently breaking the sixth and seventh commandments, namely “thou shalt not steal” and “thou shalt not commit adultery”.
The “stealing” was in particular related to the Vatican Bank, IOR, whilst the sexual offences were related to the influence of an active gay lobby within the Vatican.
*popcorn*
Pope’s Resignation Prompted By Scandals (Paddy Agnew, Irish Times)